Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74110
problem with upgrading from null to rc2
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) Description of problem: RPM Database problems prevents an end user to upgrade from null to rc2 (or final). Currently anaconda freezes if the RPM DB is bad (for example if you got __rpmdb stuff) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Just make your RPMDB bad and try to upgrade ;) Actual Results: installation freezes Expected Results: I think it should remove the __* files from the RPM DB directory, rebuild (--rebuilddb) the RPM repository and continue installation, or at least give some info to the person Additional info:
Upgrades from beta to the final release isn't supported. Getting back inline with the current version of rpm in the next release should resolve the problem, though. Additionally, rpm shouldn't be leaving the database in this state anymore -- if it does, a bug needs to be filed against rpm with the exact way to reproduce it so that Jeff can fix it.